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DUMPING CAR AND SOOW. No. 330,101. Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

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DUMPING CAR AND $UOW.

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WILLIAM FALLON, or NEwBURe, NEW YORK.

DUMPING CAR AND scow.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,101, dated November10, 1885.

Application filed March 10, 1885. Serial No. 158,374. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FALLON, of Newburg, in the county of Orangeand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved DumpingAttachment for Cars and Scows, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

The object of my invention is to construct scows and cars in such amanner that they can be dumped Very easily and rapidly, and after beingdumped can easily be brought back to the normal position.

This invention,which is an improvement on the dumping-car for whichUnited States Letters Patent No. 287,650 were issued to me on the 30thday of October, 1883, consists in the arrangements and combinations ofparts and details, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a scow provided with my improved dumpingattachment. Fig. 2 is a plan View, the platform being removed. Fig. 3 isa cross-sectional view on the line am, Fig. 1, the platform beingraised. Fig. 4c is an end view,the platform being lowered. Fig. 5 is adetail longitudinal sectional view of the lock and guides on the line y3 Fig. 4.

Near the ends of the scow A the uprights B are secured, each beingprovided with a Vertical guide-slot, G, on the central longitudinal lineof the scow. The ends of a hingerod, D, extending centrally andlongitudinally over the scow, are passed through the slots 0, andthrough blocks E, arranged to slide vertically 011 the outer sides ofthe uprights, and in vertically-slotted guides I on the outer sides ofthe uprights. Heads D are formed on the outer ends of the rod D. Eachblock E is provided with an opening, F, in which a transverse roller, G,is journaled. Two wings, H, forming the platform for receiving thematerial to be transported, are hinged on the hinge-rod D, and rest onrollers J, at the upper ends of the inclines of the scow or at the sideedges of the supporting-frame of the car. On both surfaces of the endpieces, K, of one wing H metal plates L are secured, which overlap thesurfaces of the end pieces of the other wing, and

in the top edge of each end piece of one wing a metal plate or strip, M,of the width of the end piece, is hinged and rests upon the top edge ofthe adjacent end piece of the other wing, The side pieces, N, of thewings Hare hinged to swing downward and outward in line with the wingsH, and are provided with inwardly-projecting catches 0, having hooks Oon the upper surfaces. Bevel-hooks P are pivoted on the end pieces, K,near the outer edges of the wings H, to adapt the said hooks to catch onthe hooks O of the catches O. The hooks P are connected by cords,chains, or wires B with caps Q on the tops of the uprights B, or areotherwise connected with the tops of the uprights, and prevent the hooksP from dropping farther than is desired. Atransverse lever, S, ispivoted on the top of the scow at or near the middle, and has its endsconnected with rods T,eXtending to the opposite ends of the scow, andpassed through the uprights B. The rods T have upwardly projectinghandles T on the ends. Levers U are pivoted on the top of the scow, andto the said levers U the bolts V are pivoted, which are adapted to passthrough apertures in the ends of the uprights B and through the openingsF in the blocks E. W W are stops for the lever S.

The operation is as follows: The outer ends of the wings H are raiseduntil they are in a horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 3, and theneither rod T is pulled outward, causing the bolts Vto pass through theopenings F in the slides E and over the rollers G in the slides, whichslides have been lowered, and thereby the wings are locked in ahorizontal position. The hinged sides N are then swung up against theends of the end pieces, K, and are locked in place by the hooks P, whichengage the hooks O of the catches O. The platform or box formed by thewings H, and their end pieces can then be filled with sand, earth,garbage, dredgings, stones, or other material. WVhen the load is to bedumped, either rod T is pushed inward, whereby the bolts V arewithdrawn, and the weight on the outer parts of the Wings swings themdownward and raises the joint or hinge. As the latches P are held by thewires or chains R, they are automatically disengaged from the latches 0,when the outer edges of the wings The above-described dumping attachmentcan be applied on cars as well as on scows, as

the dumping attachment remains the same in either case.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a scow or'car, of a platformformed of two wings hinged on a rod passed through vertical slots inuprights on the car or scow, blocks on the said rod, and bolts whichengage the said blocks and lock the wings in a horizontal position,substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a scow or car, of a platform formed of twowings, ,a rod passed through vertical slots in uprights on the car orscow, and on which rod the wings are hinged, a lever pivoted on the topof the scow or car, rods extending from the lever to the ends of the caror scow, and of bolts operated from the lever and serving to lock thewings in a horizontal position, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

3. The combination, witha scow or car, of

the vertically-slotted uprights-B, the rod D,.

the wings H, hung on the same, the rollers J, on which the wings rest,and bolts for locking the wings in place when in a horizontal position,substantially as herein set forth.

. 4. The combination, with a scow or car, of the slotted uprights B, therod D, the wings H,hung on the same, the apertured blocks E on the endsof the rod D, the guides I for the said blocks, and of bolts to bepassed through 0 the apertures in thesaid blocks, substantially asherein shown and described.

5. The combination, with a scow or car, of the slotted uprights B, therod D, the guides I, the blocks E, having apertures F, and roll- 5 ersG, and of bolts to be passed through the apertures in the blocks E,substantially as herein shown and described.

' 6. The combination, with a scow or car, of the wings H, hingedtogether at their inner edges, and having endpieces,K, of thelatches Oon the end pieces, the uprights B, the end pieces, K, the hooks P on thesame, and the chains, cords, or wires R, connecting the hooks P with thetops of the standards B, substantially as herein shown and described.

7. The combination, with a scow or car, of the standards B, havingvertical slots 0, the rod D, passed through the slots, the blocks E, thewings H, hung on the rod D, the lever S, the rods T, the levers U,connected with the rods T, and the bolts V, connected with the levers U,substantially as herein shown an described.

WILLIAM FALLON.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, EDGAR TATE.

